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Adat Ami Synagogue Collection
MS-0492
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & University Archives
Title: Adat Ami Synagogue Collection
Creator:
Adat Ami Synagogue
Identifier/Call Number: MS-0492
Physical Description:
1.25 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1990-2002
Language of Material:
English
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The contents of the collections consist of documents, records, minutes, newspaper clippings, photographs, special programs
and events regarding the congregation, from the 1990's with a few items from 2000-2002 from the merged congregation, Ohr Shalom
Synagogue.
This collection is open for research.
The copyright interests in these materials have not been transferred to San Diego State University. Copyright resides with
the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. The nature of historical archival and manuscript collections
is such that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine. Requests for permission to publish must be
submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. When granted, permission
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available
for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including
but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
Rocky Reid
This collection was donated to the Jewish Historical Society of San Diego in 2005 (JHSSD #2005.05) by Rocky Reid, president
of Ohr Shalom Synagogue. Ohr Shalom Synagogue is the product of a merger between Congregation Beth Tefilah and Adat Ami Synagogue.
The processed collection was donated to SDSU's Special Collections and University Archives in 2012.
Congregation Beth Tefilah Collection
Anti-Defamation League of San Diego Collection
Ralph Berman and Roberta Wagner Collection
Lasker Lodge Collection
Ed Naiman Collection
Dr. Seymour Okmin Collection
Paul Schraer Collection
Henry and Idelle Weissenberg Collection
Identification of item, folder title, box number, Adat Ami Synagogue Collection, Special Collections and University Archives,
San Diego State University Library.
Since 2007, the Jewish Historical Society of San Diego has transferred numerous collections to Special Collections and University
Archives.
In 1976, a group of Spanish speaking Jews began holding services at Congregation Beth Israel's synagogue building at Third
and Laurel Streets in San Diego, as a second congregation at that location, under the name Or-El. The founding rabbi, Arnold
Kopikis was born in Argentina and had had a large congregation in Mexico City. The founding president was Eddy Cohen. Though
many of the congregants were from Latin and South America, the congregation grew into a truly international congregation.
They eventually moved to a rented facility on Camino Del Rio South and then to one on Camino de la Reina and then to another
rented space of Morena Blvd. In 1999 the congregation merged with Congregation Beth Tefilah to become Ohr Shalom Synagogue,
and in 2001 they relocated to the former home of Congregation Beth Israel, at 3rd and Laurel Streets in San Diego.
2012-019
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Jews--California--San Diego